Also known as Dom 2b, `Punta S'Argiola'. Cyclopygid Bed

Where: Sardinia, Italy (30.3° N, 8.7° E: paleocoordinates 74.0° S, 114.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Amorphognathus ordovicicus conodont zone, Punta S'Argiola Member (Domusnovas Formation), Kralodvorian (449.8 - 445.2 Ma)

• BA 5/6 Foliomena community. Listed as upper Kralodvorian; Domusnovas overlies Portixeddu Formation.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, shelly/skeletal, calcareous mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: BA 5/6 Foliomena community; Member occurs in five outcrops, but is only .89 to 1.5 meters thick, (on average 1.1 m). All the photographed specimens come from these two locations (only approx. 15 km apart) and so I will consider this a pooled sample, despite more than one location.

Primary reference: E. Villas, W. Hammann, and D. A. T. Harper. 2002. Foliomena fauna (Brachiopoda) from the Upper Ordovician of Sardinia. Palaeontology 45(2):267-295 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 75890: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Paul Hearn on 05.11.2007, edited by Pete Wagner

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